March’s top news stories
Iceland’s budget airline Wow Air ceased operations due to increasing financial issues and a failure to secure more funds, Harbour Air partnered with magniX to transform its seaplanes into an...
Iceland’s budget airline Wow Air ceased operations due to increasing financial issues and a failure to secure more funds, Harbour Air partnered with magniX to transform its seaplanes into an...
Airbus revealed that it will cease production of the world’s largest commercial airliner, A380, after Emirates, the biggest customer of the model, decided to reduce its total order of the...
SMBC Aviation Capital has signed an agreement to purchase 65 A320neo Family aircraft from Airbus for more than $7.4bn at list prices, and IATA has claimed that a ‘no deal’...
Vietjet Aviation is expected to place an order worth $6.5bn with Airbus for 50 A321neo aircraft, and a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the...
TransDigm Group agreed to acquire aerospace-parts maker Esterline Technologies for around $4bn, and a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft operated by Indonesia’s Lion Air crashed into the sea off the...
Airbus unveiled plans for the safe and efficient integration of drones or autonomous aircraft into airspace, and ST Engineering's US subsidiary signed an agreement to buy General Electric’s nacelle manufacturing...
Ducommun has secured an over $200m long term contract from an unnamed engine original equipment manufacturer to build nacelle components, and a team of Chinese researchers is developing a spacecraft...
Air Lease (ALC) is to purchase up to 78 Boeing aircraft in a $9.6bn deal at current list prices, and Facebook is reportedly planning to launch a satellite into space...
Rockwell Collins signed a definitive agreement to acquire aircraft cabin interior manufacturer B/E Aerospace for $8.3bn and Thales Alenia Space opened a new facility that will manufacture electric propulsion systems...
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched eight satellites into space, and the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority is planning to enforce a new law to restrict the import and...